Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mrs Thatcher 's opposition will prevent the declaration having any legal force , the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , made it clear he would be coming forward with detailed proposals on a range of minimum social rights for workers in the 1992 single market over the next 12 months — some of which would have binding legal force throughout the Community . |
| 2 | Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds . |
| 3 | ( 1988 ) was that their S2 varied from one pre-exposure trial to the next . |
| 4 | He even wears checked trousers and a natty sports jacket , as he describes to his son Art how , in 1944 , he survived 10 months in Auschwitz , dodging from one hair's-breadth escape to the next , outwitting his enemies by the skin of his teeth , emerging miraculously intact at the end of each cliff-hanging episode of this astounding strip cartoon . |
| 5 | Ideas of how the Universe will die vary from one scientific theory to the next . |
| 6 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 7 | Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical period to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon . |
| 8 | Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical point to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon . |
| 9 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 10 | Back in the house , she went from one ordinary object to the next , chairs , tables , bookcases , touching and leaning against them as if for help . |
| 11 | That a visa for travel to West Germany can be refused on ‘ moral ’ grounds is highly unusual ; a regard for ‘ national security ’ is much more the norm … will it mean no visas for all ‘ bearers of state secrets ’ , a category which can be variously defined from one individual case to the next ? … |
| 12 | Two mini studios , MGM-Pathe ( see also page 111 ) and Orion , have lurched from one corporate drama to the next . |
| 13 | On my experience dealing with people is however forgetful they get you know nursing homes or residential homes or whatever and they ca n't really remember from one corresponding conversation to the next they still remember that they 've got two children and that they own a bank account . |
| 14 | Consequently , although pressure forces are important in collimating gas onto closed orbits , they are unimportant during the long periods in which the gas drifts from one closed orbit to the next . |
| 15 | Although a recent constitutional amendment protected a new government from a motion of no confidence during the first 18 months of its existence , it appeared unlikely that Wingti 's new government would be strong enough to break the country 's traditional pattern of politics by becoming the first since independence to survive from one general election to the next . |
| 16 | And distances from one inhabited place to the next are often lengthy , involving hour-long journeys . |
| 17 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 18 | In his main screen , on high magnification , he saw beyond the Warlords to where the squad upon squad of Imperial Fists were advancing , some under cover of Land Raiders and Rhinos , others leapfrogging squad by squad from one hard-fought nook to the next . |
| 19 | Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter . |
| 20 | And manager Denis Smith is planning at least one new signing in the next few days : top priority a striker , and a centre half . |
| 21 | One new initiative in the next couple of years , will be the opening of a third front — the Far East/Pacific Rim . |
| 22 | A 30minute set seemed to contain only two distinct songs , preferring to veer from one mantra-like rhythm to the next . |
| 23 | Accounting policies must be applied consistently from one financial year to the next . |
| 24 | Rakovsky was embarking on his career as a diplomatic spy , moving under different names and jobs from one Western embassy to the next . |
| 25 | Close by , a willow warbler flicked jauntily from one overhanging twig to the next . |
| 26 | The May 17 announcement that Egypt had signed a letter of intent with the IMF , securing it a US$372 million standby credit over the next 18 months , paved the way for a major concession on Egypt 's official debt ; 17 creditor countries meeting as members of the " Paris Club " in Paris on May 20-24 announced that Egypt was to benefit from a two-stage debt-reduction plan modelled on that offered to Poland in March [ see p. 38107 ] . |